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and you get water clear as that from the brook ; all 

 the fertilizing parts having been retained in the eight of 

 ten inches of soil in the leach tub. Being satisfied that 

 this is true, would it not be wise to leave the manure 

 near the surface, to be dissolved and carried down by 

 the rains ? Plow deep, save all your manure, and leave 

 it near the surface of the field. 



T. K BOUTELLE, Chairman. 



MR. LEMUEL PITTS' STATEMENT. 

 FARMS. 



The farm I offer for your consideration I bought in 

 the spring of 1854, and commenced operations abouU 

 the 20th of April. My former business having beeri 

 in Boston during the past twenty-five years, I conse- 

 quently came entirely ignorant of farming operations ; 

 I thought as most city people do, " that an^ fool could 

 make a farmer." But I found myself much mistaken, 

 before the first season was over. My greatest object 

 in purchasing a farm was for the benefit of my family, 

 particularly my boys, and my expectations have been 

 realized, they have done much better thun I expected 

 for boys brought Up in the city. 



The farm contains sixty-nine acres of naturally good 

 land, but had been owned by a physician some eight 

 years or more, who did not prescribe much nourishment; 

 Consequently it v^as somewhat reduced under his treat- 

 "inent. The yeai* previous to my purchase, it only 

 produced sixteen tons of hay. It is divided into pasture, 

 IffoWing and tillage, say thirty-five acres pasture, twenty- 



